England the last defending champion defeated by Afghani’s by 69 runs. Such a joyful moment for Afghanistan as they did it, a dream came true for them, and Afghanistan flag covers the victory as past hard time seen.
Afghanistan recorded their first ever win over England as they beat the ICC ODI World Cup defending champions by 69 runs registering one of the biggest upsets. Afghanistan recorded a historic first win over England in the ICC ODI World Cup 2023, beating the defending champions by 69 runs at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi.
World Cup: Afghanistan register their first-ever ODI win over England.
The Moment: Afghanistan flag rises high
In an anti-climax for England fans, Afghanistn lions stunned the defending champions in the 2023 ICC CWC encounter in Delhi.Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Rashid Khan took three wickets each as Afghanistan defended 284.England were bowled out for 215, with Harry Brook scoring 70.Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ikram Alikhil slammed half-centuries for Afghanistan, who have claimed their first-ever ODI win over England.
Victory of Afghanistan flag over England flag
No doubt there are hardly 8-10 Afghanistan flags in the ground as compared to England . Afghanistan slam 284 runs and given the target of 285 in 300 balls.Afghan openers Gurbaz (80) and Ibrahim Zadran shared a century stand after England elected to field.However, they slumped from 114/1 to 190/6, with Adil rashid, Mark wood, Liam Livingstone, and Joe Root striking regularly.However, Rashid Khan (23) and Alikhil took Afghanistan past 230. The latter then completed his half-century, while Mujeeb starred with his pinch-hitting in the slog overs (280/10).
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With this, Afghanistan end their 14-match losing streak in World Cups with the biggest win of their ODI history till date, to send shockwaves in the tournament as well as in the cricketing world. Afghanistan flag are now at sixth place in points table, just behind England, while Australia are now at bottom of the ten-team tally.
A good chasing 285, England were dealt an early blow when Jonny Bairstow was trapped lbw on first ball of Fazalhaq Farooqui, which he reviewed immediately. The replay showed the ball clipping leg-stump on umpire’s call, meaning England retained review, but lost Bairstow.
Though Dawid Malan and Joe Root picked some boundaries, Farooqui continued to bowl probing line and length – like he squared up Malan, hit him on pads (and burnt a review), then beating him. Afghanistan increased pressure on England when Mujeeb Ur Rahman castled Root with a googly that stayed low.
Malan and Harry Brook tried stabilising the chase with strike-rotation and a few boundaries, but Mohammad Nabi took out the former by deceiving him with an outside off-stump delivery which he chipped straight to short extra cover.
The match stats:
AFG innings
| BATTERS | RUNS | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz | 80 | 57 | 8 | 4 | 140.4 |
| run out (sub David Willey / Jos Buttler) | |||||
| Ibrahim Zadran | 28 | 48 | 3 | 0 | 58.3 |
| c Joe Root b Adil Rashid | |||||
| Rahmat Shah | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 37.5 |
| st Jos Buttler b Adil Rashid | |||||
| Hashmatullah Shahidi (c) | 14 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 38.9 |
| b Joe Root | |||||
| Azmatullah Omarzai | 19 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 79.2 |
| c Chris Woakes b Liam Livingstone | |||||
| Ikram Alikhil (wk) | 58 | 66 | 3 | 2 | 87.9 |
| c Sam Curran b Reece Topley | |||||
| Mohammad Nabi | 9 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 60.0 |
| c Joe Root b Mark Wood | |||||
| Rashid Khan | 23 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 104.5 |
| c Joe Root b Adil Rashid | |||||
| Mujeeb Ur Rahman | 28 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 175.0 |
| c Joe Root b Mark Wood | |||||
| Naveen-ul-Haq | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 83.3 |
| run out (Jos Buttler) | |||||
| Fazalhaq Farooqi | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50.0 |
| not out | |||||
Extras15 (wd 11, lb 1, nb 3)
TOTAL284/10 (49.5)
| FALL OF WICKETS | SCORE |
| Ibrahim Zadran | 114/1 (16.4) |
| Rahmat Shah | 122/2 (18.4) |
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz | 122/3 (18.5) |
| Azmatullah Omarzai | 152/4 (26.0) |
| Hashmatullah Shahidi | 174/5 (32.1) |
| Mohammad Nabi | 190/6 (36.1) |
| Rashid Khan | 233/7 (44.1) |
| Ikram Alikhil | 277/8 (48.0) |
| Mujeeb Ur Rahman | 277/9 (48.1) |
| Naveen-ul-Haq | 284/10 (49.5) |
| BOWLERS | O | MO | RUNS | WKTS | ECO |
| Chris Woakes | 4.0 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 10.3 |
| Reece Topley | 8.5 | 1 | 52 | 1 | 5.9 |
| Sam Curran | 4.0 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 11.5 |
| Adil Rashid | 10.0 | 1 | 42 | 3 | 4.2 |
| Mark Wood | 9.0 | 0 | 50 | 2 | 5.6 |
| Liam Livingstone | 10.0 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 3.3 |
| Joe Root | 4.0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 4.8 |
| BATTERS | RUNS | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| Jonny Bairstow | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50.0 |
| lbw b Fazalhaq Farooqi | |||||
| Dawid Malan | 32 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 82.1 |
| c Ibrahim Zadran b Mohammad Nabi | |||||
| Joe Root | 11 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 64.7 |
| b Mujeeb Ur Rahman | |||||
| Harry Brook | 66 | 61 | 7 | 1 | 108.2 |
| c Ikram Alikhil b Mujeeb Ur Rahman | |||||
| Jos Buttler (c & wk) | 9 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 50.0 |
| b Naveen-ul-Haq | |||||
| Liam Livingstone | 10 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 71.4 |
| lbw b Rashid Khan | |||||
| Sam Curran | 10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 43.5 |
| c Rahmat Shah b Mohammad Nabi | |||||
| Chris Woakes | 9 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 34.6 |
| b Mujeeb Ur Rahman | |||||
| Adil Rashid | 20 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 153.8 |
| c Mohammad Nabi b Rashid Khan | |||||
| Mark Wood | 18 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 81.8 |
| b Rashid Khan | |||||
| Reece Topley | 15 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 214.3 |
| not out | |||||
Extras13 (wd 8, lb 4, nb 1)
TOTAL215/10 (40.3)
| FALL OF WICKETS | SCORE |
| Jonny Bairstow | 3/1 (1.1) |
| Joe Root | 33/2 (6.5) |
| Dawid Malan | 68/3 (12.4) |
| Jos Buttler | 91/4 (17.2) |
| Liam Livingstone | 117/5 (20.4) |
| Sam Curran | 138/6 (27.1) |
| Chris Woakes | 160/7 (33.0) |
| Harry Brook | 169/8 (34.2) |
| Adil Rashid | 198/9 (38.4) |
| Mark Wood | 215/10 (40.3) |
| BOWLERS | O | MO | RUNS | WKTS | ECO |
| Mujeeb Ur Rahman | 10.0 | 1 | 51 | 3 | 5.1 |
| Fazalhaq Farooqi | 7.0 | 0 | 50 | 1 | 7.1 |
| Naveen-ul-Haq | 6.0 | 1 | 44 | 1 | 7.3 |
| Mohammad Nabi | 6.0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 2.7 |
| Rashid Khan | 9.3 | 1 | 37 | 3 | 3.9 |
| Azmatullah Omarzai | 2.0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6.5 |
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